Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 20, 2023

The company will achieve this by opening 900 new pickup locations where customers can collect purchases; eight new stores; and nine Plan & Order points, where shoppers can schedule free appointments to discuss their interior design needs with Ikea’s experts. The new facilities and services are expected to create more than 2,000 jobs.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As with most industries, the pandemic accelerated processes that were well underway in the interior design sphere during the past few years. The second one is putting together spaces without going into stores, trying furniture and meeting with customers. Balance in Colors and Materials. People Show Their Individuality.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 11, 2023

is expanding its existing slate of design tools and services with the debut of an Interior Design Service, offering consumers and businesses the chance to connect virtually with an interior design expert to help develop any space. in a statement. “We in a statement. “It

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Anyone who has purchased furniture for their office, apartment or home would agree it can be a long, arduous process. But new direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands like Sundays are designed to streamline the process and develop multipurpose products that can adapt as consumers’ needs change. Owning the Entire Customer Experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Walmart and Gap are deepening their relationship with the launch of Gap Home Furniture, a collection of more than 150 items including couches, ottomans, TV stands, headboards and rugs. The Gap Home line, which launched in June , also is receiving an update with new fall styles in bedding, curtains, pillows and other items.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Serving as the brand’s first-ever immersive design store, the location features a two-level “Design Desk” staffed by design professionals, a Crate & Kids shop-in-shop and a range of services, including floral arrangements and monogramming.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Walmart has unveiled a host of new tech-powered experiences that it has already launched or is currently testing, all designed to simplify the lives of its customers. Experimenting with a new tool that combines the power of GenAI and AR to build on its existing slate of home and furniture AR try-out tools and provide actual design help.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2023

Photo courtesy of Ashley Photo courtesy of Ashley Photo courtesy of Ashley Photo courtesy of Ashley Photo courtesy of Ashley Photo courtesy of Ashley Furniture and mattress retailer Ashley will update its stores across the U.S. to mark its official rebranding from its original name, Ashley HomeStore. over the next year.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 27, 2023

Partnerships have included non-wedding companies, such as Sandals Resort, but this is the first time David’s Bridal has worked with a furniture and home goods retailer. Both brands offer exclusive designs and exceptional value across many styles, from the couple’s big day to their homes.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2022

Furniture and lifestyle brand Burrow has begun to expand its retail presence with its first Boston location. The showroom will open to the public in May, offering its signature immersive furniture buying experience based on high touch point engagement. Over the next two years, Burrow will open nine additional showrooms in major U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 8, 2021

The pandemic has normalized working from home, creating a ripple effect in the business world. More than half of Americans want to continue working remotely, which has encouraged 21 major companies, including Google, Uber, American Express and Airbnb to extend their work-from-home policies , according to Business Insider.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As with most industries, the pandemic accelerated processes that were well underway in the interior design sphere during the past few years. The second one is putting together spaces without going into stores, trying furniture and meeting with customers. Balance in Colors and Materials. People Show Their Individuality.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Designing a photoshoot for a furniture collection is typically an expensive, logistics-heavy procedure that involves months spent coordinating teams of people, products and locations. The second came in 2021, when cooped-up shoppers wanted to get out of their homes, so it featured vacation spots like a cabin and a beach house.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2021

Ballard Designs , a multichannel home décor and furniture design company, has opened its first Houston store, marking its 17 th retail store nationwide.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 9, 2020

With the COVID-19 pandemic escalating the adoption of online shopping across all categories, the home goods sector in particular has seen a notable spike in ecommerce. CITY Furniture also expects to experiment more by leveraging Kibo personalization tools. Adapting Ecommerce for Furniture’s Extended Shopper Journeys.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Nordstrom has introduced a two-story Nordstrom Home retail space at its NYC flagship location in Midtown Manhattan with an emphasis on city living featuring products such as compact appliances, small furniture and suitcase-friendly items for tourists.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Seeking to support expansion into what it terms “strategic growth categories,” The Container Store has launched its “Uncontained” campaign, focusing on direct-to-consumer (DTC) products in categories including dining, entertaining, home décor and textiles.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 10, 2022

The investments will create a more immersive IKEA experience and support growing demand for home deliveries. Expansion plans include the first IKEA stores in Stockholm and Toronto, which were specially designed to operate in busy downtown locations. Ingka Group also is investing nearly €1.2

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2021

The retailer will purchase gently used, functional and fully assembled IKEA furniture for store credit, and make items available for resale in the store’s AS-IS section. We hope the Buy Back & Resell service inspires our customers to live a more sustainable life at home while giving their used furniture another life and a second home.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In the spirit of giving, and to fine-tune some of its brand messaging, Lowe’s is partnering with Wyndham Hotels & Resorts to create a home away from home with their Holiday Home Layover experience, specifically for travelers whose holiday travel plans have been disrupted. Miami — Wyndham Garden Miami International Airport.

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Weebly

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Furniture and home design companies are no exception. With bustling eCommerce shops, inspiring product photography and time-saving plug-ins, the following nine Weebly websites provide perfect blueprints for product, furniture and interior designers looking to kick off their own ventures. Mod Mom Furniture.

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BigCommerce

JANUARY 3, 2018

Home decor. Sunrise Wholesale is a general wholesaler and dropshipper that offers 15,000 products in categories like home decor, sports and fitness, jewelry, garden decorations and more. Nordstrom’s online collection includes women’s, men’s and children’s clothing, as well as jewelry, shoes, home goods and more. Electronics.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2022

This experience gives brands the ability to give their customers all the benefits of in-person shopping from the comfort of their own homes. If you sell home décor, you can use AR effects to place products — be it furniture, appliances or pieces of art — virtually into a user’s home through their regular mobile phone camera lens.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 16, 2023

Forward , a new accelerator program designed to help Black and Hispanic retailers overcome systemic hurdles, will fund an inaugural cohort of 25 early-stage companies with $20,000 each plus exclusive access to training developed in partnership with 1863 Ventures. Applications for Forward are open through April 1, 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

New York designer Jessica loses her luggage while returning to her hometown for the holidays. Image courtesy Walmart From furniture and holiday décor to the fashion of the entire series cast, almost everything in Add to Heart was sourced from Walmart , giving customers the opportunity to shop more than 330 products throughout the series.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Five years ago, retail innovator Phillip Raub disrupted the industry when he co-founded b8ta , a retail-as-a-service company with experiential, data-driven showrooms designed for trying and buying new tech products. Now he has his sights set on flipping the furniture industry on its head as CEO of Model No. ,

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2024

Industry thought leaders Harrison Horan of Banker Wire, Zach Adams of Bjelin and Jason Bird of Luxxbox explore the key design trends set to shape the retail space in the coming year. Its cozy, home-like feel enhances the in-person shopping experience, elevating customer comfort in retail spaces. where he designed for several major U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2024

“We want to help our guests keep the routines they already have, if they want that, but we also want to offer them a new experience, whether that’s through beauty products or a new way to make their coffee in the morning,” said September Banks, Director of Interior Design at Mint House in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2020

The three distribution centers (DCs) Home Depot will open over the next 18 months in Georgia are being designed and built to serve the different needs of in-store customers, online shoppers, do-it-yourself (DIY) consumers, professional contractors (Pros) and institutional or business customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Design and furnishings retailer Herman Miller has opened its first experiential retail concept store at Westfield Century City in Los Angeles, with a second location to follow at The Shops at Hudson Yards in New York on Nov. ” Designed in-house by Herman Miller’s creative design team, each 1,500-square-foot.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

plastics and metals), then consolidated and sent for processing to be used as raw material for products such as furniture or gardening equipment. Shoppers can choose to mail in eligible empty containers using prepaid shipping labels available on Saks.com or use designated in-store drop off containers.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 23, 2021

Online home décor and furniture retailer Wayfair plans to open three new engineering sites, in the San Francisco Bay Area, Austin, Texas and Toronto, hiring approximately 1,000 technologists globally over the next year. Over the next year, Wayfair will hire for up to 200 positions at each new Wayfair engineering site.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The site is designed to take shoppers through the bear-building experience in an immersive 3D environment. Build-A-Bear Workshop is reimagining its ecommerce site with the Bear Builder 3D Workshop, an animated shopping experience that moves the experience of bringing a teddy bear “to life” online.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 26, 2020

Iconic fashion designers Jason Wu, Rebecca Minkoff and Christian Siriano might seen an odd fit for a retailer that sells circular saws and plumbing supplies. But Lowe’s also features a wide range of home décor items, and that’s its connection with the designers and New York Fashion Week, which will take place Sept.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

LaFleur campaign imagery, artwork and messaging from clients that can draw in potential customers as they pass on the street; Interior design that relies on rich colors and natural textures that allow products to shine ; A high-touch retail environment that encourages guests to experience the brand; and.

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Kissmetrics

JULY 21, 2021

Option #1: Start a “Home Services” Franchise Business. Home service franchises offer services related to moving and housing. These work best for regional companies as most people prefer using local home repair and renovation services to save time and money. Furniture Franchise. Design Franchise. Moving Services.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 29, 2021

The experiential collective is part retail, part brand incubator, and was designed by Los Angeles-based architects Design, B **s. In total, the collective will include nine furniture, art, gift and fashion retailers, two restaurant experiences, a classroom and event space, and a bar.

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